On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 04:10:20PM +0200, Tomas Orsava wrote: > Hi, > I think it would be useful to have a standard way of disabling the > running of tests during RPM build (in the %check section of a spec > file). > > I see a lot of packages already having %bcond's or other macro > definitions to archieve this, but each package has their own way, > there's no real standard. Thus you have to first look into the spec, > locate the appropriate %bcond or macro name and only then you can > disable the tests. > > I would like to propose two approaches: > > (a) Add a *SHOULD* rule to the guidelines that specifies what is the > preferred way to conditionalize the tests. > > (b) Or, if that's too strong, mention in the guidelines the common > methods that are being used (e.g. %bcond tests and %bcond check) so > that new packagers have something to use. What's the motivation for disabling tests globally? I have some packages where tests fail on particular architectures at particular times, and what I do there is (a) file a BZ (b) surround the %check section with %ifarch/%ifnarch and a comment linking to the bug, and this seems to me a practical and lightweight approach that requires no special support in the toolchain. Also rpmbuild itself can happily disable tests, just add the --nocheck flag. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html _______________________________________________ packaging mailing list -- packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to packaging-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
